Harvard Referencing Guide for Legal Resources: A Comprehensive Overview for MTU Students, Study notes of Law

Download Harvard Referencing Guide for Legal Resources: A Comprehensive Overview for MTU Students and more Study notes Law in PDF only on Docsity! 1 A quick guide to Harvard Referencing for MTU Students using legal resources MTU HARVARD REFERENCING GUIDE FOR LEGAL RESOURCES y a 3 IRISH CONSTITUTION In-Text Citation Bunreacht na hÉireann year, Article Example: (Bunreacht na hÉireann 1937, Article 40.1) Reference List Bunreacht na hÉireann (year in brackets). Example: Bunreacht na hÉireann (1937) LEGISLATION Primary Legislation: Act/Statute In-Text Citation Title of the Act and Year Example: (Data Protection Act 2018) Reference List Title of Act including year, followed by Act No. of Year, s. [if a section has been referred to], City, Publisher, available: web address [date accessed][if available online] Example: Data Protection Act 2018, No. 7/2018, s. 10, Dublin: Stationery Office, available: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/act/7/enacted/en/html [accessed 08 May 2021] MTU HARVARD REFERENCING GUIDE FOR LEGAL RESOURCES 4 Secondary/Delegated Legislation: E.g. Statutory Instrument In-Text Citation Title of Statutory Instrument including year Example: (Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 36(2)) (Health Research) (Amendment) Regulations 2021) Reference List Title of Statutory Instrument including year, S.I. No. of Year, Place of Publication: Publisher, available: web address [accessed date] [if available online]. Example: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 36(2)) (Health Research) (Amendment) Regulations 2021, S.I. No. 18/2021, Dublin: Stationery Office, available: http://www. irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/18/made/en/print [accessed 08 May 2021] JUDGMENTS/CASES OF IRISH COURTS In-Text Citation The name of the case is italicised and the year is placed in brackets. Name of the case (Year) Example: (Friends of the Irish Environment v. The Government of Ireland and Ors (2020)) Reference List The name of the case is italicised and the year is placed in brackets, followed by the case citation/reference details Name of the case (Year) Volume number (if available) Law report abbreviation* Starting page number Example: Friends of the Irish Environment v. The Government of Ireland and Ors (2020) IESC 49 *Check the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations at at www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk for more information on law report abbreviations. If including cases in your reference list, it is preferable to list cases separately under the subheading “Cases”. 5 SECONDARY SOURCES OF LAW LEGAL TEXTBOOK In-Text Citation Author name and year Example: (Keenan 2021) – general reference to overall content of text (Keenan 2021, p72) – specific reference to a particular point or idea on page 72 Reference List Author name, year, title of text in italics, edition, publisher information Example: Keenan, A 2021, Essentials of Irish Business Law,7th edition, Boru Press, Ireland LEGAL JOURNAL ARTICLE In-Text citation Author name and year Example: (McInerney 2002) – general reference to overall content of article (McInerney 2002, p75) - specific reference to a particular point or idea on page 75 Reference List Author name, year ‘title of article’ and details of journal Example: McInerney S 2002 ‘Bases for action against race discrimination in E.U. Law’ vol 27 Eur. L. Rev. MTU HARVARD REFERENCING GUIDE FOR LEGAL RESOURCES 8 OTHER RESOURCES WEBSITE In-Text citation Author surname (person or organization) year (page created or revised) Example: (Data Protection Commission 2021) Reference List Author, Year of publication, Title of Web Content, Publisher (if applicable), URL (Accessed: date) Example: Data Protection Commission 2021, Data Protection Basics, https://www. dataprotection.ie/en/individuals/data-protection-basics (Accessed: 28th April 2021) GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS In-Text citation (Country Government Department Year) Example: (Ireland Department of Justice 2020) Reference List Government name, Year, Title of publication, Publisher, Place of Publication (if applicable), URL (Accessed: date) Example: Department of Justice, 2020, Courts Service Corporate Strategic Plan, Courts Service, available at http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Courts_Service_Corporate_Strategic_ Plan_2021_-_2023.pdf/Files/Courts_Service_Corporate_Strategic_Plan_2021_-_2023. pdf (Accessed: 28th April 2021) 9 PODCAST In-text citation (Author Surname Year) Example: (Hunt 2020) Reference List Author Surname, Initial(s) (Year), Title of Podcast, [Podcast] Publisher (if applicable), Place of Publication (if applicable), URL (Accessed: date) Example: Hunt, B (2020), Understanding Legislation, [Podcast] Ronan Daly Jermyn, https://www.rdj.ie/podcast (Accessed: 28th April 2021). MTU HARVARD REFERENCING GUIDE FOR LEGAL RESOURCES 10 This guide was compiled by the Law Lecturing team of the Department of Marketing and International Business, Munster Technological University in 2021: Katie Power, Louise P. Murphy, Josephine O'Halloran, Karen McCarthy BL, Roz Breen and Ann Lynch.